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Crimes of the Soviet communist regime
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Iceland joins 25 countries that recognize Holodomor as genocide against Ukrainians
The government of Iceland supported the resolution that officially recognized the artificial man-made famine Holodomor (death by hunger,…
Ukraine calls to recognize 1944 deportation of Crimean Tatars was genocide
On the 78th anniversary of Stalin’s deportation of the Crimean Tatars, the Ukrainian foreign ministry called on the…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 6)
[editorial]Dekulakization actually preceded the Holodomor of 1932-33. All “wealthier” peasants were expelled from their homes with their families,…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 5)
[editorial]On January 30, 1930, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) issued a Resolution ‘On measures…
Starved mother lay dead while her baby sucked on empty breast | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
Lepetykha was one of such small rivers and the Cossacks built on its shores. First permanent settlements appeared…
My granny stole pig food for us grandchildren but died of starvation herself | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
The Syvak family Ksenia Prokopiuk was born on January 31, 1927, in Tanske village of Uman district. Her…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 4)
[editorial]On January 30, 1930, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) issued a Resolution ‘On measures…
More is not better. The deleterious effects of artificially inflated Holodomor death tolls
[editorial]The scientifically sound estimate of the number of Ukrainians who starved to death in Stalin’s Holodomor famine is…
Half our village died of starvation, mostly the elderly | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
Traveling throughout Ukraine and recording the 1932-1933 Holodomor genocide witnesses, the Holodomor Museum’s employees listened to the hundreds…
My neighbor buried her three children | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
[editorial]Vasylyna Yarovenko, née Kashchuk, was a ten-year-old peasant girl in 1932-1933, when her village was hit by the…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 3)
[editorial]First document on kulaks and kulak farms Resolution of the Council of the People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian…
Every day two or three people starved to death in our village | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
, , the Holodomor of 1932–1933—all these Soviet anti-farmer terror policies hit hard Anna Slobodian and her family.…
My village once saw twelve people die of hunger in one day | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
[editorial] Hryhoriy Shykyriavyi was a six-year-old kid from a poor family in 1932-1933, when his village was hit…
Mass grave of UPA soldiers unearthed in Lviv Oblast
On Wednesday, October 6, Sviatoslav Sheremeta, head of the Lviv Regional Council municipal enterprise Dolya Memorial Search Centre…
My family survived Holodomor by eating waste left from sugar production | Voices of witnesses
[editorial]Mariia Tilna from the east-Ukrainian Kharkiv Oblast was ten in 1932-1933, when her village was hit by the…
My neighbors escaped starvation by eating grain stored by field mice | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
In 2006 the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the law that recognized the status of the Holodomor in…
How my father saved his co-villagers from starvation during the Holodomor | Voices of witnesses
When she was just 5 years old, Pelaheia Tovkach became a witness of the Holodomor, the genocidal famine…
Surviving in the “collective farm paradise”: voices of living Holodomor witnesses
[editorial]The Holodomor, an artificial famine staged by the communist totalitarian regime in 1932-1933, took the lives of millions…
Nine powerful films about Ukraine to add to your watch list
1. Chernobyl (2019) The official trailer is available via the link. Chernobyl is a five-episode historical drama series…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 2)
[editorial]On January 30, 1930, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) issued a resolution ‘On measures…